asked on Outsoruced website cannot be reached due to DNS zone with same domain name.
While moving to Server 2003 from a Novell network I created a DNS zone named mycompany.com. Since any computer connecting through the DNS server is unable to open my companies web site (mycompany.com). Can I set the DNS server to forward these request to my external hosting company?
Windows Server 2003DNSMicrosoft Server OS
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cquir
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Paka I have an issue when people within the network try to connect to my companies site externally hosted website. I do not wish to host the website onsite.
I am not certain here, but my guess is that you mean to say that you created your new AD domain using the exact domain name that you had already used on your Internet domain name registration for a public website?
If so, you should change that if at all possible, as it will make life dramatically easier to not have your public and private DNS registrations the same. Though this is not worth worrying about if you are really not planning on having more than a couple of sites or services Internet-facing ever.
Assuming you cannot or do not want to make that change, all you need to do is add a static entry on your internal DNS server using the Internet address of the website. Even with the AD-integrated DNS zone, you can enter the static entry for the web site. You cannot really forward the request to the hosting comany because forwarding is done by zone rather than individual host entry, so nothing using that domain would be resolved internally and it would all go to your hosting comany which would not have resolutions for anything other than the web site.
If my assumption is not correct up top, please explain further, and I will try to help.
If so, you should change that if at all possible, as it will make life dramatically easier to not have your public and private DNS registrations the same. Though this is not worth worrying about if you are really not planning on having more than a couple of sites or services Internet-facing ever.
Assuming you cannot or do not want to make that change, all you need to do is add a static entry on your internal DNS server using the Internet address of the website. Even with the AD-integrated DNS zone, you can enter the static entry for the web site. You cannot really forward the request to the hosting comany because forwarding is done by zone rather than individual host entry, so nothing using that domain would be resolved internally and it would all go to your hosting comany which would not have resolutions for anything other than the web site.
If my assumption is not correct up top, please explain further, and I will try to help.
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This is what happened... I created a DNS zone mycompany.com (my AD Domain is also mycompany.com) Since I have created the zone mycompany.com I have been unable to connect to my companies website also mycompany.com.
I was wondering if I could fix this issues without renaming my domain
Note that my companies website is hosted externally*
I was wondering if I could fix this issues without renaming my domain
Note that my companies website is hosted externally*
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What you need to do is setup a split-brain DNS. See:
http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/resources/techresarticlesdnssplit.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/resources/techresarticlesdnssplit.mspx
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Thank you for all your comments I have actually decided to rename the domain.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315982